Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to You Should Know@lemmy.world · edit-222 days agoYSK that 158 families, the 0.01%, make up 50% of US Presidential Campaign Spending. www.nytimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square78fedilinkarrow-up11.07Karrow-down18
arrow-up11.06Karrow-down1external-linkYSK that 158 families, the 0.01%, make up 50% of US Presidential Campaign Spending. www.nytimes.comDavriellelouna@lemmy.world to You Should Know@lemmy.world · edit-222 days agomessage-square78fedilink
minus-squarekalkulat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up12·edit-222 days ago Citizens United Corporations have been ‘people’ since the 1886 USSC decision in Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad. Yet somehow, unlike most people, they’ve escaped having to go to jail when they commit crimes. I’d call that an unfair advantage.
minus-squareReverendIrreverence@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·22 days agoI’ll believe a corporation is a “person” when Texas (or Alabama, Florida, South Carolina etc) executes one of them
Corporations have been ‘people’ since the 1886 USSC decision in Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad.
Yet somehow, unlike most people, they’ve escaped having to go to jail when they commit crimes. I’d call that an unfair advantage.
I’ll believe a corporation is a “person” when Texas (or Alabama, Florida, South Carolina etc) executes one of them